• Ynglingatal or Ynglinga tal (Old Norse: 'Enumeration of the Ynglingar') is a Skaldic poem cited by Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, the first saga...
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    through the poem Ynglingatal. The dynasty also appears as Scylfings (Old Norse Skilfingar) in Beowulf. When Beowulf and Ynglingatal were composed sometime...
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    generally identified with the Swedish king Egil Vendelcrow mentioned in Ynglingatal, Historia Norwegiae and in Ynglinga saga. The reason why they are thought...
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    Peace-Fróði (Friðfróði), the king of Zealand. Snorri also quoted some lines of Ynglingatal, composed in the 9th century: Varð framgengt, þars Fróði bjó, feigðarorð...
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    Aun (section Ynglingatal)
    called Aun's sickness. The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after Jorund): based on the...
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  • quoted some lines from Ynglingatal composed in the 9th century: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal written in the late 12th...
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    Eadgils (section Ynglingatal)
    century and the 11th century, is (beside the Norwegian skaldic poem Ynglingatal from the 9th century) the oldest source that mentions Eadgils. The text...
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    Ingvar (section Ynglingatal)
    Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after Eysteinn): Ynglingatal only mentions the location Sysla...
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    ambushed by a thrall and killed. The earliest two versions based on Ynglingatal, i.e. Historia Norwegiæ and Íslendingabók (see below) say that Dag was...
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  • of Hvinir (Kvinesdal). Two skaldic poems, Haustlǫng (Autumn-long) and Ynglingatal (Enumeration of the Ynglingar), are generally attributed to him. According...
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  • Sturluson included a piece from Ynglingatal composed in the 9th century: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation:...
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    of Stocksund. Ynglingatal then gives Alrekr and Eiríkr as Agne's successors. The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's...
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    legendary Yngling dynasty. In fact, the oldest Scandinavian sources, such as Ynglingatal, the Westrogothic law and the Gutasaga talk of the King of the Swedes...
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    quoted some lines from Ynglingatal composed in the 9th century: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation:...
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  • Snorri included a piece from Ynglingatal (9th century): The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation:...
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    chapter 17, the king Dyggvi dies of sickness. A poem from the 9th-century Ynglingatal that forms the basis of Ynglinga saga is then quoted that describes Hel's...
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    needed] Stanza from Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's Ynglingatal: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing...
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    of Domalde in his Ynglinga saga (1225): Snorri included a piece from Ynglingatal (9th century) in his account in the Heimskringla: Hitt vas fyrr, at fold...
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    below): Ynglingatal then gives Yngvi and Alf as Alrek's and Eirík's successors. The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than...
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    set the hall on fire and succumbed in the flames. The citation from Ynglingatal does not appear to describe Ingjald as an evil king. It calls his life...
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    brothers or other close relations. They killed each other. According to Ynglingatal, Historia Norwegiae and Ynglinga saga, Yngvi and Alf were the sons of...
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  • According to a tale related by Jordanes in his Getica, Gothiscandza was the first settlement area of the Goths after their migration from Scandza during...
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    Sturluson quotes Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's Ynglingatal: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing...
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  • of Vestfold in what is today Norway in the 9th century, according to Ynglingatal and to Ynglinga saga in Heimskringla. He was apparently a member of the...
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    a piece from Ynglingatal (9th century) in his account in the Heimskringla: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's...
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    illråde, ruler of the House of Yngling in the 7th century according to Ynglingatal, a Skaldic poem detailing the kings of that house. His mother was Gauthild...
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    Ynglingatal, Háleygjatal og Hyndluljóð [The sacred wedding and Norse royal ideology. An analysis of the hierogamy myth in Skírnismál, Ynglingatal, Háleygjatal...
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    sons Eadgils and Eanmund fled to the Geats and the wars began anew. Ynglingatal, Ynglinga saga, Íslendingabók, and Historia Norvegiae all present Óttarr...
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    illustrates this event with the stanza from Ynglingatal: The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation, continuing...
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    earlier than the 9th century in the form of skaldic poetry, such as Ynglingatal. The Scandinavian sources were not put to paper until the 11th century...
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